If all goes well, Chełm will become the first city in the world where children are better with their phones than the phones are with them. Let’s hope this is a growing trend. We need standardised services and objects, but even more we need the courage and ability to individualise the objects around us, to treat such a spontaneous need as something natural. From today’s perspective this may look like “playful fun”, but in a decade or so it has the chance to save us from a terribly boring and anonymous world that is entirely “pragmatically” designed.
Antosia has a good chance of becoming the nucleus and leader of the new artistic avant-garde of the 21st century in her weight (and age) category. If she finds imitators/competitors, there could be an unusual exhibition at the school that will attract media interest. I’m keeping my fingers crossed and thank you for meeting me.
And the sense of colour is not bad either. If such a vertical stripe of pink and blue were pasted into the smooth sky of Chełmoński (or Raphael Malczewski, for example), it would make an interesting and breezy, like before a storm.
